Sentences with phrase «fiefdoms of»

Not personal fiefdoms of intellectual self - indulgence and elitism.

The US Constitution still cripples the federal government's effort to curb the local fiefdoms of today's Patrick Henrys, rooted as it was in slavery, mercantilism, and frontier exploitation.

Dan: Yeah, I think for a long time colleges and universities have been fiefdoms of deciding who is going forward into the teaching profession.

It wasn't always this way for the Senate, which from the 1960s until the late 2000s had been a relatively sleep chamber controlled by Republicans endowed with virtual fiefdoms of legislative earmarks.

There are, no doubt, other interests at stake, such as those linked to the oil fiefdoms of central Asia!

The constant refrain of the RSS school is that Christians are abusing «our hospitality» as though India was the fiefdom of the RSS.»

I am sorry, but I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.

McPartland, a leading Tory tax credit rebel, wrote on his website yesterday: «I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.»

There is separation of powers in our constitution and all arms of government know what they need to do for our country to run smoothly and not as a personal fiefdom of anybody,» he said.

There manager Alan Grossman established his personal fiefdom of studios and restaurants where the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield and Todd Rundgren mixed and mingled with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

This is the personal fiefdom of Clyde Martin (John Travolta,...

Not exact matches

It unsettles IT guys, who fear the bogeyman of legacy integration (and may wonder what happens to their fiefdoms after the integration is complete).

Gerdes, who is more than a mere perambulatory Rolodex, has the inside dish on the strategic focus of the various and diffuse fiefdoms within the Microsoft realm and in fact probably knows more about Microsoft's strategic direction than many Microsoft employees.

Occupation: CEO and founder of Chris Madden Inc., a growing domestic - diva fiefdom that's filling the vacuum left by Martha Stewart.

So both are paradoxically true: rising inequality is indeed a crisis of Neoliberal Global State Capitalism, and so is the rise of the supposed «solution,» the insatiable plundering State in service to its fiefdoms and private Financial Power Elites (the Plutocracy).

But the rise of the Central State beholden to its fiefdoms (public unions, shadow Security State, military industrial complex, the sickcare cartels, etc.) has enabled the wholesale distortion not just of domestic markets but of the entire global economy.

Management by mandarin To run his fiefdom and its business holdings, Lee relies heavily on an elite cadre of about fifty senior civil servants.

Unlike the activist firms run by Bill Ackman or Dan Loeb, the fund Paul Singer founded has raised an army of activists who can influence corporate fiefdoms everywhere.

and the once - shocking Family Guy expand his fiefdom to the big screen, thanks to the success of his first live - action feature, Ted.

If the future pan-Orthodox Council is to have historical significance, its leaders will have to transcend their personal resentments, stop looking after the self - interest of their respective ecclesial fiefdoms, and go beyond the haphazard list of items drawn up decades ago.

I did not get to play in the inner circle of a fiefdom that fed toxicity.

This is the terrifying Spirit of Vatican I that really sees the Church as the Pope's personal fiefdom and him as its master rather than its servant.»

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

Also, you clealy want America to be a fiefdom, ergo you must want America to be some kind of monarchy.

Europe in the 1100's was awash in hundreds of separate fiefdoms, each with it's own interests and needs.

Although the international community looks upon these artificial fiefdoms as internal colonies, the regime had high hopes for this plan until foreign pressure at least momentarily suspended the policy of denying blacks citizenship in their own country.

will it take another season of Giroud leading the line and failing miserably yet again for people to understand that Wenger now runs the club as his own private fiefdom??

I realise that Chechnya, as Kadyrov's private fiefdom, is far worse than the rest of Russia but even with that in mind Russia's backslide into autocratic thuggery under Putin should be condemned for what it is.

What's funny is that Wenger has been taking the piss out of Arsenal FC for years, using it as his own personal ego fiefdom.

The sense of betrayal that residents feel has its roots in a park district that has operated as a fiefdom for a select few without public scrutiny or input.

«They may have changed their official party line to save their political fiefdoms, but Paladino is as much of a train wreck as ever.

He argues vehemently that if there was any usefulness to the election, it was that it provided an insight into how democratic process could be subverted by an organized electoral pirates who worked to enthrone a regime of anomie in pursuit of a Hobbesian fiefdom that Ekiti has become.

Misratans should run their town's affairs through their new democratically - elected local council and Benghazi transparency activists must be involved in their local governance — but only as representatives of the central government and not as their own fiefdoms.

The coming elections in 2016 and 2017 present the very real danger of irrelevance and ultimately extinction for the party, especially if the SNP can gain local government fiefdoms like Glasgow, which act as centres for political patronage.

The Reverend has his little political fiefdom in the Bronx, but its small, limited, and the fact his endorsed candidate Cabrera lost significantly to Sen. Rivera shows that in the end, Diaz Sr. has nowhere the pull of his son, who is backing Cuomo big time.

Senator Diaz might be a significant factor with regards to who ends up controlling the Senate, but in terms of electoral pull outside his church and fiefdom, the man has almost no influence.

If there is one man who can make Klein sweat in the Bronx, where he's erected a fiefdom and cultivated allies, it's Heastie, who leads a conference getting weary of watching priorities like ethics reform and the DREAM Act die in the senate.

Exile: the vested interests intent on protecting their local fiefdoms lobbied vary hard against the government consolidation bill, with lots of disinformation.

«I don't want to see the Town of Southold divided into fighting fiefdoms,» he said.

The influential publication credited Zimpher with unifying the system that had often acted «like a big group of warring fiefdoms competing for money and students.»

To do this they will need to reign in the power of the regional office fiefdoms and impose a rational state - wide strategy.

The lawsuit accuses Mr. Espada of using a publicly supported entity as a personal fiefdom — to the tune of $ 14 million in misappropriated funds.

Will England accept being carved up into career sized fiefdoms for the convenience of professional politicians?

Both documents thus highlight an essential reality of laboratory life: Professors with lucrative grants enjoy great power to run their fiefdoms as they see fit, regardless of what rules and agreements say.

But as the city degenerated into a series of warring fiefdoms in the 1980s, its power and water supplies became increasingly unreliable.

«His biggest contribution was taking the plasma activities at MIT from a group of warring fiefdoms to a unified and productive laboratory,» said Ronald Parker, a professor of nuclear engineering and electrical engineering and computer science emeritus who succeeded Davidson as the director in 1988.

Scott Cooper's «Black Mass,» which opens Friday, is an expansive look at the bonds of old - neighborhood loyalties that fostered the FBI's disastrous shielding of Bulger's Winter Hill Gang, which eradicated Boston's Italian mafia only to replace it with a murderous Irish - Catholic fiefdom.

It's a reach at best shown as we are the anarchy that reigned then and for decades to come with Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall running the city as a fiefdom for the robber barons at the top of New York society.

The first image from the upcoming crime thriller Green Room has arrived online, showing Patrick Stewart (X-Men: Days of Future Past) as Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest... In the crime thriller GREEN ROOM, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in -LSB-...]

While A.O. Scott of The New York Times described the film as «solid but standard» outside the theater after the press screening, Variety hailed Depp's «mesmerizing performance» in a «sober, sprawling, deeply engrossing evocation of Bulger's South Boston fiefdom,» labeling the film «one of the fall's first serious, awards - caliber attractions.»